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man among the heavy columns of reinforced concrete under the bridge. .The modern bridge over the Mokva River (Krasnogorsk).
Le fort du Larmont inférieur, appelé brièvement fort Malher, est un fortin militaire construit au xixe siècle entre 1845 et 1851, donc avant la création du système Séré de Rivières. Il a été érigé dans le département du Doubs (région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), sur la commune de La Cluse-et-Mijoux à 1 032 m d'altitude. Il avait pour missions de protéger le fort de Joux, de renforcer la défense du passage de la cluse de Pontarlier, et d'appuyer les actions menées par les troupes sur le sommet du Larmont (Wikipedia).
The Lower Larmont fort, briefly called Fort Malher, is a military fort built in the 19th century between 1845 and 1851, therefore before the creation of the Séré de Rivières1system. It was erected in the Doubs department (Burgundy-Franche-Comté region), in the town of La Cluse-et-Mijoux at an altitude of 1,032 m. Its mission was to protect the fort of Joux, to reinforce the defense of the passage of the cluse de Pontarlier, and to support the actions carried out by the troops on the summit of Larmont (Wikipedia).
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DSC04946. Castillo Templario de Ponferrada. Declarado Monumento Nacional de Interés Histórico y Artístico in 1924, el castillo es el resultado de una larga serie de ampliaciones, reformas y adiciones que van desde el primero llevado a cabo cerca de la planta cuadrada a principios del siglo 12, hasta las últimas zonas construidas a finales de los siglos 15 y principios de los 16. Tan pronto como Ponferrada pasó a depender de la Orden del Temple en 1178, por el regalo de los Reyes de León, los caballeros templarios encontraron una pequeña fortaleza que en un principio actuó como un asentamiento celta. Los caballeros reforzaron y reconstruyeron el recinto amurallado con el fin de proteger y guardar el camino de los peregrinos de Santiago y defender la entrada a la zona noroeste de la península. El castillo alberga ahora la exposición permanente "Templum Libri" en libros y facsímiles. Esta es una de las mejores colecciones del mundo de su tipo.
Declared a National Monument of Historic and Artistic Interest in1924, the Castle is the result of a long series of enlargements, refurbishments and additions ranging from the first one carried out near the square ground plan in the early 12th century, up to the last areas built in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. As soon as Ponferrada became dependent on the Order of the Temple in 1178, by gift of the Kings of León, the Templar knights found a small fortress that originally acted as a Celtic settlement. The knights reinforced and rebuilt the walled enclosure in order to protect and guard the Way of St. Jame’s pilgrims ad defend the entrance to the Northwest area of the peninsula. The rehabilitates palace suites host now the permanent exhibition “Templum Libri” on books and facsimiles, graphic cart and authors collections. This is one of the world’s best collections of its kind.
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This is the second image in the sequence - the previous image shows the beginning of the dispute, and this its rapid escalation. As I wrote: these are very tough birds, and very territorial.
While I was securing these images, a person drove down the road, and decided to discuss the fact that I was prone on a rural road taking photographs of Snow Buntings. I think the person may have been motivated by good will, as the person drew my attention to the fact that 300 metres down the road there was a Snowy Owl on a hydro pole. I thanked him - though he had, with his car, flushed the birds - and reassured him I knew.
He then commented, in a less helpful way, that these were Snow Buntings, as if to say ‘you know these are just passerines’, reinforcing the apparent oddity of lying on the road using a camera in their company. I thanked him, and then got the distinct impression he wanted to get out of his car and take a photograph of me. I was pleased when he drove on, and the birds eventually returned.
view of Zamek Lubelski (Lublin Castle) from the arcade viaduct on Zamkowa (Castle) Street
The Lublin Castle (Zamek Lubelski) is a medieval castle in Lublin, Poland, adjacent to the Old Town district and close to the city center. It is one of the oldest preserved royal residencies in Poland, initially established by High Duke Casimir II the Just. Its contemporary Gothic Revival appearance is largely due to a reconstruction undertaken in the 19th century.
The hill it is on was first fortified with a wood-reinforced earthen wall in the 12th century. In the first half of the 13th century, the stone keep was built. It still survives and is the tallest building of the castle, as well as the oldest standing building in the city. In the 14th century, during the reign of Casimir III the Great, the castle was rebuilt with stone walls. Probably at the same time, the castle's Chapel of the Holy Trinity was built as a royal chapel.
In the first decades of the 15th century, King Władysław II Jagiełło commissioned a set of frescoes for the chapel. They were completed in 1418 and are preserved to this day. The artist was a Ruthenian, Master Andrej, who signed his work on one of the walls. Because of their unique style, mixing Western and Eastern Orthodox influences, they are acclaimed internationally as an important historical monument.
Under the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty the castle enjoyed royal favor and frequent stays by members of the royal family. The sons of King Casimir IV Jagiellon were brought up in the castle under the tutelage of Jan Długosz. In the 16th century, it was rebuilt on a grandiose scale, under the direction of Italian masters brought from Kraków. The most momentous event in the castle's history was the signing in 1569 of the Union of Lublin, the founding act of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
As a consequence of the wars in the 17th century (The Deluge), the castle fell into disrepair. Only the oldest sections, the keep and the chapel, remained intact. After Lublin fell under Russian rule following the territorial settlement of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the government of Congress Poland, on the initiative of Stanisław Staszic, carried out a complete reconstruction of the castle between 1826 and 1828. The new buildings were in the English neo-Gothic style, completely different from the structures they replaced, and their new purpose was to house a criminal prison. Only the keep and the chapel were preserved in their original state.
The castle was a prison for the next 128 years: as a Tsarist prison from 1831 to 1915, in independent Poland from 1918 to 1939, and most infamously during the Nazi German occupation from 1939 to 1944. Under Tsarist Russia prisoners included Polish resistance members, one of the most notable being writer Bolesław Prus. When between 40,000 and 80,000 inmates, many of them Polish resistance fighters and Jews, passed through. During World War II, the Castle Chapel was the location of a German court. Many prisoners were sent from the castle to concentration camps, including nearby Majdanek. Just before withdrawing on 22 July 1944, the SS and German prison officers massacred over 300 of the remaining prisoners. After 1944, the castle continued as a prison of the Soviet secret police and later of the Soviet-installed communist regime of Poland and, until 1954, about 35,000 Poles fighting against the new communist government (especially cursed soldiers) passed through it, of whom 333 died.
In 1954, the castle prison was closed. Following reconstruction and refurbishment, since 1957 it has been the main site of the National Museum.
I went back to Miami and finally got some nice perspectives of Dame Zaha Hadid's building. Previously the sidewalk views were closed due to construction.
The lines and curves are spectacular, as you can see.
(I'll visit when I can. Those 13 hour drives are exhausting, especially in a U-Haul)
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Two years ago I went back to my hometown Schuders, a small village in the Swiss Alps. A windy one-lane mountain road leads up to the village. On the way you pass the Salginatobel Bridge, a reinforced concrete arch bridge designed by Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart. It was constructed across an alpine valley between 1929 and 1930. In 1991, it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the thirteenth such structure and the first concrete bridge so designated. Get the details on Wikipedia at bit.ly/2fn2au3
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The Vauban Fortress, was initially a strategic fortification established by Philip the Fair, circa 1300. The donjon was rebuilt in 1480-1490 by Jehan II de Brosse. In 1689, Ferry reinforced the walls of the Donjon to set up a battery of 9 canons and a signaling point. In 1693 a lower circular battery was set up to control access to the river Charente. The donjon received a signal station from 1889 to World War II.
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n the early Middle Ages, the reinforced castle of Poeke (Flanders - Belgium) served as a real bastion where knights from Flanders county assembled. The castle, which was the residence of the "Heren Van Poucke" ("Gentlemen of Poeke - mention the old-Dutch spelling of the word "Poeke") was at that time governed from Bruges. However, combative Ghent rebels repeatedly attacked the castle. Consequently, after the year 1453 Poeke castle felt into ruin for many years. One and a half century late, in 1597, the family Preud'homme d'Hailly from Rijsel (North of France) bought the castle from a family called "Delrye" and governed Poeke for more than 2 centuries. They made the castle the centre of their increasingly growing properties.
It was in the same year 1597 that heirs of this nobility introduced the title "Burggraven of Nieuwpoort" ("Viscounts of Nieuwpoort"). Although their cultural wealth was initially suppressed because of the 16th and 17th century wars, successive generations of viscounts led the Baronny of Poucques to a short, but uncontested peak in 1765. From 1762 up to 1774, Karel Florent Idesbald de Preudhomme was not onlyViscount of Nieuwpoort and Oombergen, Baron of Poeke, Sir of Axpoele, Neuville, Sint-Lievens-Esse, Velaines, etc., but also chamberlain of the Austrian king.
At that time, the kingdom of the Netherlands was governed by Austria and looked as a rigid and hierarchic society, where the aristocracy was able to maintain their privileges up to the French Revolution (1789). Even after the French-Napoleonic empire collapsed (1815) and after Belgium came into being (1830), the aristocracy could maintain its position as the high social class on the Flemish countryside.
The isolated location of Poeke, the steady decrease of the number of its inhabitants and the stable agricultural character of Poeke, which mainly consisted of farmsteads, all these reasons caused the aristocratic power system to continue to function until after the Second World War (1945).
In the second half of the 19th century, the family Preudhomme D'Hailly was once and for all past its peak and financial problems weakened its position inside as well as outside the village. As a consequence, they had to abandon the castle in 1872.
The family Pycke de Peteghem - which was raised to the peerage in 1730 - bought the castle and gradually dominated the small East-Flemish agricultural village. Its political representation mainly focused on the mayoralty, a position that was rarely assigned to someone who was not a member of the aristocratic family.
The castle largely survived both World Wars, but the aristocratic influence during the 20th century died out when the last Baroness of Poeke, Inès Pycke de Peteghem deceased (1955). The property structure of the castle changed for the last time in 1977, when Poeke fused with Aalter. From then on, the castle was owned by the community and became a public domain. Up to now, it is part of an extraordinary recreation facility.
They are four reinforced-concrete structures located above the dam, two on each side of the canyon. The diameter of these towers is 82 feet at the base, 63 feet 3 inches at the top, and 29 feet 8 inches inside. Each tower is 395 feet high and each controls one-fourth the supply of water for the powerplant turbines.
But the more powerful point of the contrapasso that attaches appropriate schemes of punishment to different species of sin is that your condition in Hell conforms exactly to the shape and form of your own desires,14 of those desires of yours acting upon which got you there in the first place. In that sense you make your own Hell for yourself.
--Dante the Theologian, Denys Turner
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Dragon's teeth (German: Drachenzähne) are square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete first used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry. The idea was to slow down and channel tanks into killing zones where they could easily be disposed of by anti-tank weapons.
Europe, The Netherlands, Nood Brabant, Eindhoven, Evoluon, Roof (uncut)
Inside the Evoluon museum, shot towards the structuralist reinforced concrete skeleton of the roof. The building, which looks like a UFO or flying saucer, was built as a showcase for technological progress, particularly those in which the originally Eindhoven-based company Philips was involved. It was designed by Louis Kalff and Leo de Bever and transferred to the municipality of Eindhoven in 1966 on Philips' 75th anniversary.
The building was an educational technology museum from 1966 to 1989 and attracted many visitors until the 1970s. This was partly because they were allowed to experiment and operate the showcased models themselves. This was new then and particularly attractive to schoolchildren and other young people. Many schools traditionally organised an 'Evoluon trip' once a year.
In 2022, the Evoluon reopened as a museum under the leadership of the Next Nature Foundation. This organisation focuses on researching the impact of technology on our lives and the planet. Next Nature makes future scenarios tangible for a wide audience in the Evoluon through exhibitions and educational programmes for schools and companies.
This is number 16 of the Eindhoven abum.
The Triple Islands Lighthouse is an octagonal, reinforced concrete tower measuring 23 metres (76 feet) high. It is attached to the corner of a square, three-storey, reinforced concrete structure that serves as the keepers’ dwelling and equipment building. The lighthouse is located on the northwesterly rock of a group of three islets known as the Triple Islands at the western entrance of Brown Passage. It was built in 1920 to guide marine traffic traveling from the Inside Passage to Alaska, as well as for deep-sea ships navigating to and from Prince Rupert. There is one related building on the site that contributes to the heritage character of the lighthouse
This is a double exposure of two shots I took in the Thar desert in India. In the vicinity of our desert camp, where we were staying in a full, albeit luxurious, tent, I found a concrete block with reinforcing irons peeking out of it. Since the sun was just setting behind it, I took a picture of it. One day later we had the pleasure of riding camels through sand dunes, which always gives spectacular shots anyway. I created this image from both shots.
Alicja Kwade, Kunsthalle Mannheim
Die Künstlerin stellt in der Installation im Atrium der Kunsthalle das abstrakte Verhältnis von Zeit, Raum und Objekt anhand einer gleichmäßig rotierenden Uhr und eines Steins dar. Beide Gegenstände sind an Ketten befestigt und kreisen von einer Motorwinde getrieben über den Köpfen des Publikums. Die aufeinander bezogene Bewegung der beiden Objekte erzeugt eine visuelle Achse zwischen ihnen; dort behauptet sich die „bewegte Leere des Moments“. In Referenz zur Umlaufbahn eines Planetensystems erzeugen die glänzende Uhr mit zweiseitigem Zifferblatt und der schwere, raue Stein eine Konstellation, die die universale Relation von Materie und Immateriellem reflektiert. Das monotone Ticken des Uhrwerks verstärkt akustisch die Unendlichkeit der Kreisbewegung.
In her installation in the atrium of the Kunsthalle, the artist explores the abstract relationship between time, space, and object using a uniformly rotating clock and a stone. Both objects are suspended from chains and, driven by a motorized winch, circle above the heads of the audience. The interrelated movement of the two objects creates a visual axis between them; there, the "moving emptiness of the moment" asserts itself. Referencing the orbit of a planetary system, the gleaming clock with its double-sided dial and the heavy, rough stone create a constellation that reflects the universal relationship between matter and the immaterial. The monotonous ticking of the clockwork acoustically reinforces the infinity of the circular motion.
85 N. Sichuan Rd., Shanghai
The building is named Daqiao (which means Bridge) Building, originally known as Daqiao Apartments. Constructed between 1935 and 1936, it stands seven stories high and is built with a reinforced concrete structure. The overall style of the building is modernist, with some Art Deco decorative elements.
In August 1937, Japanese forces entered the northern area of the International Settlement and promptly converted this building into the headquarters of the Japanese Military Police in Shanghai. A detention center was added on the ground floor to hold political prisoners. In addition to Chinese detainees, the facility was used to incarcerate foreign nationals from countries such as Britain, the United States, and the USSR, as well as Japanese individuals deemed to have ‘dangerous thoughts’.
Following the Pacific War, the Japanese expanded the detention facilities, replacing the cell doors with barriers made from logs as thick as a bowl's diameter. By 1942, each cell held an average of thirty to forty prisoners. Notable figures detained here included Xu Guangping, the widow of Lu Xun (1881-1936, writer), and American journalist John Benjamin Powell.
After Japan’s surrender in 1945, the building was taken over by the Shanghai Garrison Command and used as an office for the Investigation Department.
Now, the building has fallen into a state of disrepair, and its residents come from various walks of life.
Conwy Castle and The Tubular Railway Bridge,
over Afon Conwy, North Wales.
Built by Robert Stephenson between 1846 and 1850.
This carries the North Wales Coast railway line across Afon Conwy
between Llandudno Junction and the town of Conwy.
Conwy bridge has been reinforced by extra columns under the bridge into the river but is otherwise virtually unchanged since it was built.
WW2/Cold War defensive anti-submarine barrier.
Steel reinforced concrete pilings.
This surviving 2km section on the Essex side of the Thames estuary marks the border of the MoD Shoeburyness firing range.
LR4163 © Joe O'Malley 2021
Ganter Bridge is a reinforced concrete road bridge which is the longest spanning bridge in Switzerland, located along the Simplon Pass road in the canton of Valais about 10 km (6 mi) south of Brig.
The overall length is 678 m (2,224 ft) with a main span of 174 m (571 ft), and a maximum tower height of 150 m (492 ft).
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The Simplon Pass (French: Col du Simplon; German: Simplonpass; Italian: Passo del Sempione) (2,005 m or 6,578 ft) is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland. It connects Brig in the canton of Valais with Domodossola in Piedmont (Italy).
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C-FFAL, a Boeing 737-2R8C, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as RAG100 (Glencore Canada Corporation) from Montreal, Quebec. This aircraft supports the Raglan nickel mine near Kattiniq, Quebec - 1,270 statute miles north northeast of her base at Mississauga.
She began her career as 5H-MRK with Air Tanzania way back in May 1979. The 40-year-old still looked great.
C-FFAL has been worn on this airframe since it arrived in Canada back in January 2005, when it was registered to Falconbridge Limited in Toronto. That mining company was later acquired by Glencore.
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We saw more than 50 White-faced Ibis families nesting in bulrushes above the water. Nests are built by both sexes and have a depression in the center. This was a communal affair, kind of an Ibis kibbutz, with a series of large nests holding numerous families side by side. There was even a Pied-billed Grebe with the hen sitting on seven or eight eggs. American Coots were also in the area with juveniles. Adult Ibises were constantly flying back and forth with nest material. Given that they "borrow" from vacant nests, their constant repair efforts are understandable.
The construction of the lighthouse was completed in 1992 and it became operational in 1994. The tower with a focal height of 52 m is built of reinforced concrete columns. Materials used in its construction were brought in specially, including the white gravel, and coloured concrete used to produce the white finish. A system of sliding scaffolding was used to complete the project within a few months in 1992.
A Pelican's reinforcing glare to us that sea level are indeed rising. Taken on our Eyre Peninsula road trip.
Climate change poses a major threat to the whole planet, but there are certain geographical areas which are more exposed to the dangers of global warming.
These countries are part of the so-called SIDS (Small Island Developing States), which by its nature will be the first to suffer the consequences of climate change and are in danger of disappearing.
These territories, 52 according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs mostly share the fragility of a subsistence economy based on tourism, the difficulty in communications and infrastructure development, lack of protection against natural disasters and dependence on international trade.
Here are nine of these islands at risk of disappearing due to global warming.
Republic of Kiribati
Republic of Maldives
Republic of Vanuatu
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Samoa
Nauru
Fiji Islands
Marshall Islands
FYI, in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, it has already begun..tracts of land usually in sight have been swallowed by the sea.
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This site commemorates the martyrdom of 14 Franciscan missionaries in the 14th Century who were killed on this spot by the Pagans of the time. The first crosses were erected in 1613 and made of wood. Reinforced concrete crosses were erected in 1916, exactly 300 years after the first crosses were built. The Soviet authorities later destroyed the site, as the regime allowed for no religion, but once Lithuania regained independence, three further crosses were rebuilt in their original place and symbolise the beginning of Christianity in Lithuania.
Three workers install the steel reinforcing rebars for one of several concrete columns for the second and third floors of an old one-story chapel building under renovation.
Started three years ago, the construction project on about 200-sqm lot was stopped for a few times in the recent past due mainly to coronavirus pandemic.
Captured in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
It's better not to look at the joints of reinforced concrete structures, could cause stomach pain.
Cementownia G. - Abandoned cement works (1857-1979) - Poland
For about one hundred feet into the tunnel the surfaces are reinforced with limestone blocks in an arch. Past that, the walls and celling are rough hone, which is shown in the following picture.
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Reinforced bonds, a METAPHOR OF LIFE, of knots and ropes and hooks.
In one go my favourite colour-combinations.
So, when back from the Continent, having reinforced the bonds with family ... with old friends and new friends...
Yes, the feeling is good!
And this image of some mended nets on the quayside in the harbour in Ostend/ Flanders is the perfect illustration of I how feel and what I mean.
The industrial fishing harbour of Ostend is one of our old hunting-grounds, we still love going there, as there is always something that catches the eye.
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